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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Robert Bechtle.
Bechtle’s work is featured in "Still Life: 1970s Photorealism" at the Yale University Art Gallery. The exhibition, which is drawn from YUAG’s collection, was curated by Cathleen Chaffee and will be on view through March 9. It also includes work by Robert Cottingham, Ralph Goings, Duane Hanson, Malcolm Morley, Gerhard Richter, and John Salt. Bechtle is also exhibiting new paintings and drawings at New York’s Gladstone Gallery through February 22.
These are two related paintings that Bechtle and MAN Podcast host Tyler Green discussed on this week’s show. The top painting is Watsonville Olympia (1977) from the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Below it is a Bechtle watercolor, Watsonville Patio (1977). Green and Bechtle discussed the two paintings’ geometry and composition, and the way Bechtle ‘built’ the stucco wall in the second painting.
In 2005 Bechtle was the subject of a San Francisco Museum of Modern Art-organized retrospective that traveled to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and to the Corcoran Gallery of Art. His work is in numerous museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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